Command-line tool

mycli

brew/mycli

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CLI for MySQL with auto-completion and syntax highlighting

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At a glance

Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

pipx install mycli

macOS

brew install mycli
pipx install mycli

Linux

brew install mycli
pipx install mycli

Connect to a local database on port 3306, using the current user's username

mycli database_name

Connect to a database (user will be prompted for a password)

mycli -u username database_name

Connect to a database on another host

mycli -h database_host -P port -u username database_name

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• Databases

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